Apple Suffers 2 Defeats in One Day Amid Patent War with Masimo

Apple, and the Apple Watch in particular, were hit with a legal one-two punch Friday. A jury found against the gadget titan, ordering it to pay $634 million to the health tech company Masimo, while on the same day the U.S. International Trade Commission announced it will reexamine whether it may want to impose an import ban on Apple Watches—also due to Masimo-related concerns.

It’s a huge dual victory for Masimo, whose multi-year legal war on Apple is sprawling and seemingly…